Sentence examples for a minor decrease of from inspiring English sources

We observed a 2 3% increase in porosity, a minor decrease of specific surface and consequently a small increase in permeability.

After 1.5 months of exposure, the specimens conditioned at 50 °C and 60 °C, respectively, had bond-strength increases of 25%and26%6%, while the specimens conditioned at 40 °C exhibited no noticeable changes (a minor decrease of 4.3%).

The mesoscopic architecture almost remains intact upon functionalization, with only a minor decrease of the intensity of (110) diffractions for the 20 mol% TEVS-functionalized samples, which still preserve a desirable pore structure, with a surface area of 883.7 m2/g, a pore volume of 0.98 cm3/g and a mean pore size of 4.4 nm.

The results showed a minor decrease of 7% total forest cover in the study area during the whole period 1984 2000, but an overall net increase of 4% during the period 1993 2000.

There was a minor decrease of body weight both days.

A recent study found that constitutive deletion of TET1 results in a minor decrease of bulk 5 hydroxy-methylation in the adult brain.

We observed a minor decrease (−2.5%) of main root length of irrigated rice but a significant increase (+9.9%) of upland rice root length in dry land as compared with that in the irrigated condition (Table  1, Student's t-test, P = 0.002, Additional file 7), indicating an adaptive feature of upland rice.

We observed a minor decrease and modulation of NK cells, but for all other populations no effects could be detected.

However, only a minor decrease (≤2-fold) of pyruvate carboxylase (PYK (KEGG pathway map) =  PKLR (SDE gene list), one of the major rate limiting enzymes in gluconeogenesis [ 27] was identified in the KEGG Insulinn signalling pathway' (Additional files 2 and 6).

Although separate diagrams for each gender would create the most accurate model for predicting finger strength, we found an easily interpretable combined diagram for each measurement resulted in only a minor decrease in the goodness of fit (R) of the model (see Results).

Measurements of fluid pressure below the piston showed only a minor decrease from the start of the experiments to the later time points with major osteolysis.